State Dept: “We don’t known nothin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies”
More than a year after the U.S. Department of State began denying passport applications of Rio Grande Valley residents delivered by midwives, the issue is still being addressed in Congress and in pending class action lawsuits.
U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, broached the issue of arbitrary passport denials at a March 24 meeting between the Congressional Border Caucus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“Denying passports or questioning the eligibility of an individual solely because the birth certificate is issued by a midwife is an arbitrary practice that has subjected thousands of U.S. citizens to unfair treatment,” Ortiz said in a prepared statement.
With the requirement that U.S. citizens returning from Mexico show a passport, and people along the border having to cross into Mexico regularly for business and family reasons, this is a serious problem, especially in rural Texas where medical services aren’t always available and, besides, being born is seen as a natural occurrence and not something necessarily requiring hospitalization. As was crossing the border. But, consideration of how people “not like us” live is not something the bone-heads who wrote the regulations would ever let cross their narrow minds. A bunch of prissy bureaucrats.
(sombrero tip: South Texas Chisme)
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